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Andrea Brady

Biography

Born in Philadelphia, USA, 1974. Studied at Columbia University in New York and then at Cambridge University in the UK, where I wrote a PhD on seventeenth-century poetry. Now Professor of Poetry at Queen Mary, University of London.

I have given many public readings in the UK, Europe, the US and Canada, including at the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver; the Centre Internationale de Poésie Marseille; Poetry Hearings Berlin; the Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; and a reading tour of the rust belt USA in April 2007. The US tour was mounted in support of the recent special issue of Chicago Review (53.1) on New British Poetry, which focused on my work along with that of Chris Goode, Peter Manson, and Keston Sutherland. I have been invited to speak as an expert by the British Council, the BBC, the Arts Council, and the Poetry Society. My work has been translated into Finnish, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Slovene, and Slovak.

I was interviewed by Andrew Duncan for The Argotist website and by Sarah Howe at praccrit. With Keston Sutherland I run the small press Barque which specialises in contemporary English language poetry.

I am the Director of the "Archive of the Now." I discussed the Archive with Rosheen Brennan in an interview for How2.

The Book of the City of Ladies was performed at POLYply 30 on 5 June 2014. The sequence of readers was as follows: Andrea Brady, Kristen Kreider, Prue Chamberlain, Nisha Ramayya, Francesca Lisette, Andrea Brady. Thanks to Jeff Hilson for making the recording.

I participated in this podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (recorded at the Stoke Newington International Airport, 8 October 2012).

Reading at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007) as part of the Chicago Review tour. Keston Sutherland and Peter Manson also performed.

Miami University of Ohio

This performance was given at Miami University of Ohio on 8 September 2007 and recorded by Justin Katko, and is hosted through his website Meshworks. It was part of the Chicago Review tour; Keston Sutherland and Peter Manson also performed.

Sample Text

DAMAGED GOOD

In the clearing smoke scoursthe photographs, hiding the animallabour which moves insects and theirinformation all over the face of the earth.I arrive in kind by light rail transport rough and undependable, rockingsideways with a peg of metal to makeit ring eratogenically like spraypaint in a cylinder.And get my tag up on the boundary stone.Apprentice to the art of uniforms. Off the peg on the make, ashamed to beat ease among gillyflowers where I tosssuffering to be carried back by animals,the cabbage moth, the ordinary bee.

Chances start out anthological, and are re-distributed by rationing, for loss looks betterand is altogether better an ethic. I am who ties together the navigation menuall the compassed interests of Varietyall three corners of the fading earth.

Watch all day the screen in ratio, facingits light and movement with more affectand concentration than the branchingface of a lover, as these spaces slip into degrees.

Two move abreast the loan of specificitykeeping an eye on the melancholichourglass, poised beside the leftward arrow,of the machine asking us to wait some more.

We share one hope, and it infuses eventhe green-lipped mussel we eat sickly, and the curlof green-fringing kale. It bolts up the skyand our assertion that there will be a futureclearing the smoke swings from its rootless peg.That the blood will root, and take turnsthrough all the living work done on the earthto divide and return to us intact. Ours isthe most abstract, and furthest from the truth.

Daniel C. Remein, ‘Kinesis of Nothing and the Ousia of Poetry (Part Review Essay, Part Notes on a Poetics of Auto-Commentary’, on Wildfire, Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary 3 (2010): 67-94.